Artist

Ilya Chashnik

1902–1929 · born in Ludza · died in Saint Petersburg

Ilya Chashnik was a Russian artist born in Ludza, now in Latvia, in 1902. He was a student of Kazimir Malevich and worked in the Suprematist group in Vitebsk and Petrograd, painting geometric shapes and designing porcelain. He died in 1929 at the age of 26.